As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.
Unfortunately he may not be prosecuted. Many protestware developers aren't. The developer of Node-IPC intentionally destroyed data on many computers with Russian and Belarus location data, including supposedly a few military computers, and he's unfortunately a free man. Didn't even get banned on Github.
